Wood supply

37chief

Well-known Member
Location
California
This is the first year I haven't had a good supply of wood at my house. I have the cut up wood about a block away where I keep my shop, and tractors. I just need to haul it to the house, and the splitter. I always had something to do, besides hauling wood. Amazing, now I need wood, and I have the time. I don't need a lot of wood here in California, but now I have a fire in my wood stove every night. I get a fire going, and about 9:00 I toss I a large log, and close the stove up, and the log cooks all night, and keeps the house warm, until morning. Hope you have your wood supply, as I see it's already snowing in some areas. Stan
 
I'm ashamed,
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cut split about 5 cords, need about 2 more for the winter, was down to 16 here last night, gotta feed the boiler!
 
We cut a big (3 trunk) female Box Elder tree down Saturday that was buried in the middle of some Cedars, and near my incoming power line, and overhanging a neighbors fence. We discovered the female Box Elders are the ones that attract the Box Elder bugs, and that was the last one on my and my next door neighbors properties. Since he burns very little wood (has a nice wood burner in his pole barn) ,I took all the burnable wood. (Box Elder is the weakest, lowest BTU per pound hard wood) He cut 13 trees down last (2017) fall so my pile is pretty large. Plus this fall, as a bonus, both of us experienced fewer Box Elder bugs. I just finished hauling the rest of the cut down wood to the pile behind my pole barn yesterday before the snow started, then my cousins husband called and I had to install a new 40 gallon natural gas induced draft A.O. Smith water heater yesterday afternoon. That is exactly the same kind and type I had to take out, but it was 15 years old, and the new one was laid out completely different. Well, by 9 PM, the new heater was running and I could go home. Nowadays, hot water is not a want, it's a need!
 
Stan,
I'm surprise California doesn't outlaw wood stoves, air pollution.

I keep my house warm with insulation, good windows, doors and maintenance free electric baseboard heat in every room. I just signed up for a 12 month fixed contract with electric company, $136/mo+tax.

Recently had 6 trees cut down. A guy has a boiler and he was happy to get my wood. I was happy to get rid of the wood. I loaded the logs on his old grain truck. I'm happy I got the job done before winter hit.
 
Been a tough fall for gathering firewood around these parts. Has been a wet one and especially wet and rainy on the weekends. We stay at least a year ahead with dry processed wood so the wet fall is more like a glitch than an emergency. Our fall firewood work consists of cutting log length wood and piling it up to be processed later. We will finish up out on the woods when it freezes up.
 
I never have enough time to stockpile wood especially since I can only cut wood in winter. There is so much poison ivy and poison oak on my place I don't cut anything without a long sleeve shirt. Now the problem I'm having is all the wood I have on hand to split has been rained on and wet. Sure doesn't heat very well.
 
All the dry standing dead I will need is flagged.
About 1/2 of it cut down.
1/3 of that bucked to size and hauled.
1/4 of that split and stacked.

So no not ready yet.

As long as the snow does not get too deep to run the dump truck out back a couple more loads should take care of it.
 
Well, I bought the wife a new Stihl 180C chainsaw last Christmas and she is finally getting around to using it.
She has me using her old Stihl 026 and the Stihl 021 that I found a few years ago is waiting in the wings.
We have a few trees knocked down from nature and those will get cleaned up this week and turned into firewood.
Speaking of which, the stove needs another log and the wood bin is on the low side. oops.
 
I must have a 5 year supply, but we are gone down South for the 3 coldest months. I was up to the cabin earlier this week and cut more, it's perfect conditions, the ground is froze so you don't make ruts, I could drive my 4 wheeler and little trailer anywhere, and only 4 inches of snow. I sell the best of it, and burn the lower quality, but it has to be dry. With a prostrate like mine getting up every 2 hours to put wood in the stove is no problem!
 
Power company cut a new line up the road through the farm. I got all the wood from my property, and most of the neighbors. There is still some left, rapidly disappearing under the snowbanks. I still need to get into the sugarbush and clean up a bunch of wind thrown an dead stuff. I have enough wood for half the winter for myself, my sister has full shed, and there is enough sugar wood for a short season. The wet October and early snow has really put a hitch in all my work.
 
Here in n. California we have not had any rain yet so we have not had a fire in the stove yet due to fire danger. We can't wait, it is chilly in the morning. I will start cutting as we need it. We have lots of dry wood, live oaks that died from last drought.
 
I have lots of logs piled up. Got to get busy cutting and splitting.
I am rebuilding my house wood stove in the shop right now. Burning way to much propane.
Richard in NW SC
 

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